It was revealed recently that Christian Bale based his American Psycho character on Tom Cruise

Watch below to understand what he meant..

Tom Cruise Superhero Spoof

 

I've been watching the healthcare debate agape at all the accusations from left, right and center and then you see stories like this

Christina Turner feared that she might have been sexually assaulted after two men slipped her a knockout drug. She thought she was taking proper precautions when her doctor prescribed a month’s worth of anti-AIDS medicine.

Only later did she learn that she had made herself all but uninsurable.

Turner had let the men buy her drinks at a bar in Fort Lauderdale. The next thing she knew, she said, she was lying on a roadside with cuts and bruises that indicated she had been raped. She never developed an HIV infection. But months later, when she lost her health insurance and sought new coverage, she ran into a problem.

Turner, 45, who used to be a health insurance underwriter herself, said the insurance companies examined her health records. Even after she explained the assault, the insurers would not sell her a policy because the HIV medication raised too many health questions. They told her they might reconsider in three or more years if she could prove that she was still AIDS-free…

Turner’s story about HIV drugs is not unusual, said Cindy Holtzman, an insurance agent and expert in medical billing at Medical Refund Service, Inc. of Marietta, Ga. Insurers generally categorize HIV-positive people as having a pre-existing condition and deny them coverage. Holtzman said that health insurance companies also consistently decline coverage for anyone who has taken anti-HIV drugs, even if they test negative for the virus. “It’s basically an automatic no,” she said.....

Nurses who deal with sexual assault cases say the industry’s policy creates a significant problem for those treating women who have been assaulted.  “It’s difficult enough to make sure that rape victims take the drugs,” said Diana Faugno, a forensic nurse in California and board director of End Violence Against Women International. “What are we supposed to tell women now? Well, I guess you have a choice – you can risk your health insurance or you can risk AIDS. Go ahead and choose.”

Turner, now a life and casualty insurance agent, said she went without health coverage for three years after the attack. She second-guesses her decision to take the HIV drugs. “I’m going to be penalized my whole life because of this,” she said…

Several women told the Investigative Fund that after being sexually assaulted they had been denied care or ruled ineligible for health insurance because of what were deemed pre-existing conditions stemming from their assaults – particularly post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier. The woman, Kimberly Fallon, told a nurse about the previous attack and months later, her doctor’s office sent her a bill for treatment. She said she was informed by a nurse and, later, the hospital’s billing department that her health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she “had been raped before.”

Fallon says she now has trouble getting coverage for gynecological exams. To avoid the hassle of fighting with her insurance company, she goes to Planned Parenthood instead and pays out of pocket.
 

 

and i wonder do the men, the loudest of all in this healthcare debate have to “power” to affect much of it when women suffer by a greater percentage of healthcare loss and discrimination just by virtue of being a woman?

Being raped, having a child, or any biological female function is a pre-existing condition… yeah..  how is this any different from the women of say Afghanistan who are denied much of anything re: education and health because they are women?

 

Alec was the host of the Elle Women In Hollywood Tribute. He got everyone dabbling on the floor laughing.......

highlights:

On Equality

[quote]“I want to assure you that I didn't steal this role from a more qualified woman,” Baldwin joked with the crowd at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles Monday night. “There was an audition process. The audition required me to move a couch, fall asleep in front of the TV, and open a particularly stubborn jar of pickles.”[/quote]

On skinny women in hollywood

[quote]Noting that movie actresses are so skinny that if he had a love scene “I would crush them,” Baldwin, 51, revealed that his pal Zellweger “is so tiny, but she's got a big voice. I've been to parties with her and you can hear her voice anywhere, but you can't understand a word she says.”[/quote]

watch the clips he's even funnier when you hear it… not best quality vid but good

more at People Magazine

Written & Produced by none other than Neyo … a lyrical comparison of Love to Russian Roulette… the track is not as HOT as i expected. Her vocals are better than expected…

i'm sure her label will push, payola and all to get this to be a huge track, they could have done a different track to start with in my opinion. The ending is blah…

According to Roger Friedman of Showbizz411.com, Michael Jackson’s documentary, “This Is It,” had a special, secret screening the other night at Sony. None other than Elizabeth Taylor got her own private viewing. And the word is, she loved it.

Kenny Ortega the director was on Oprah Friday 16th, talking about and showed several clips of the movie

part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?…

Part 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?…

Part4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?…

Looking great! What a great loss.

It appears the people closest to Michael Jackson before he passed away all thought he was ok, loving the preparations for the This is IT! concerts… he did leave us too soon…

article highlights

• 2 cameras and a documentary style group shot the This Is It Film.
  
• Kenny Ortega first turned down the idea of directing This is It! movie

snippet......
And from the moment on June 25 when Jackson was pronounced dead in Los Angeles – rendering moot the final preparations for the London series of Jackson comeback concerts Ortega was directing – this was a film that Ortega, who owes Jackson a good hunk of his career (he directed Jackson's concert tours in the '90s) and who loved him from the bottom of his heart, had no choice but to make.

Loves it, she looks just as sexy barefoot seated down as she does shaking her lumbs. She sounds so good her voice so brilliant and distinct. Love the "world" instruments and beats in the song and the lyrics... She Wolf single did ok but not great, i hope Gypsy storms the charts for Shakira. Kelly Rowland should be next....

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